Oct 25 Researchers Battle Parasite-Driven Frog Deformities At a University of Colorado lab, a leopard frog named Flipper flaps a half-formed seventh leg as he tries to navigate his aquarium. Another frog kicks himself onto his back and, burdened with two useless extra legs, can't manage… Continue reading
Oct 25 New Ban on Bath Salts After 'People Started Dying From It' Photo courtesy of the Drug Enforcement Administration No more picking up "Bliss," "Cloud Nine" or "Hurricane Charlie" at the corner grocery store. The Drug Enforcement Administration has issued a temporary ban on U.S. sales of street drugs generically known… Continue reading
Oct 24 Stellar Vampires, Snake Sperm and Optomechanics By Jenny Marder Did Giant Stars Feed Blue Stragglers? Last week, scientists presented new theories on blue stragglers, stars that are bluer and brighter than other stars. The origins of how these stars formed have long confounded scientists. Astrophysicist Aaron Geller… Continue reading
Oct 21 Scientists Follow the Water to Better Understand Drought Infrared lasers that measure droplets and water vapor, sap flow sensors that track the rate that water flows through trees -- scientists at the Susquehanna Shale Hills Observatory are using these and other instruments to "understand the water… Continue reading
Oct 20 Watch Earthquake Prediction: Could We Ever Forecast the Next Big One? Hundreds of cities on the U.S. West Coast took part in the 2011 Great California ShakeOut earthquake drill on Thursday, just hours before a small tremor hit the San Francisco Bay Area. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports from Japan on… Continue watching
Oct 20 Watch After the Tsunami, Rebuilding Japan Miles talks to Hari about the effort to rebuild the tsunami-devastated areas in Japan. Continue watching
Oct 20 While Rebuilding After Tsunami, Japan Seeks to Prevent Future Disasters EmbedVideo(1795, 482, 304); On the NewsHour Thursday, Science correspondent Miles O'Brien looks at the elusive science of earthquake prediction -- whether seismologists will ever be able to predict an earthquake with any certainty -- and how far they've… Continue reading
Oct 19 Watch In Brazil's Slums, Economic Inequality Tackled With Technology Rio de Janeiro's gleaming skyline befits a world economic power, but it is not far from violent, impoverished slums. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on one man's efforts to tackle Brazil's wealth inequality by providing poor people access… Continue watching
Oct 18 Watch How Bright Is Solar Power's Future in a Post-Solyndra America? After the Obama administration-embraced solar-panel company Solyndra collapsed and defaulted on its government-backed loans, the surging U.S. solar industry is suddenly worried that the subsidies it receives -- tax credits and loans guarantees -- could dry up in the face… Continue watching
Oct 18 Scientists Turn Ph.D. Research Into Dance Update: October 21, 4:30 pm ET| The 2011 Dance Your PhD awards have been announced. The grand prize goes to Joel Miller, a biomedical engineer at the University of Western Australia in Perth. Winners can be found here. In… Continue reading